“What I love most about shooting for Crane is the surprising amount of detail the camera lens can capture in the detail shots. Sometimes the camera reveals details I didn’t see with my own eyes!

Often I utilize a focus bracketing and blending technique to expand the focused area in a detail shot. This allows the viewer to see all of that beautiful hand crafted detail that Crane is famous for. This detail image is one of my favorites and one that I utilized this technique to reveal detail from the foreground to background.

You can see in the “before” version how the focus is much more selective and the background goes very soft. The amazing part, from a technical standpoint, is that even this image was shot at F22, an aperture normally selected to increase depth of field.

However, because of the extreme macro nature of the shot and the steep angle from which the card is photographed, even F22 is unable to increase depth of field enough. So to record all of the necessary details, I have taken six photographs at different focus points and blended them into the one focused image we see here titled ‘after’.”

It’s quite a process, as you can tell, but we think you’ll agree that the end result is well worth it. Take a look:

Before…
After…

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